Old Rugged Cross

Name: Old Rugged Cross
Duration: 3 min 1 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
4.14	Old Rugged Cross	3:01	Reno and Smiley	1959-1963	Reno and Smiley	Album + Compilation	US2006	Gusto Records (US, reissue)	GT4-0955-2
4.1	Old Rugged Cross	3:01	Reno and Smiley	1959-1963	Reno and Smiley	Album + Compilation	US2011	Gusto Records (US, reissue)	GT7-2209-2

acoustic guitar:	Steve Chapman (country guitarist) (on 1963-04-08)
banjo and tenor vocals:	Don Reno (bluegrass banjoist, Reno & Smiley member, father of Don Wayne Reno) (on 1963-04-08)
double bass [bass]:	John Palmer (US bluegrass bassist) (on 1963-04-08)
fiddle:	Mack Magaha (Bluegrass Fiddler) (on 1963-04-08)
guitar and lead vocals:	Red Smiley (American bluegrass and country musician) (on 1963-04-08)
mandolin:	Ronnie Reno (Country music singer-songwriter and musician) (on 1963-04-08)

recorded at:	King Studios in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States (on 1963-04-08)

recording of:	The Old Rugged Cross (on 1963-04-08)

lyricist and composer:	George Bennard (in 1912)
additional composer:	Charles Hutchinson Gabriel

publisher:	Patterdale Music Ltd.

premiered at:	First Methodist Episcopal Church of Pokagon (AKA the Old Rugged Cross Church) in Michigan, United States (on 1913-06-07)
written at:	Friends Community Church (Historic church located in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin) in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States (from 1912-12-29 until 1913-01-12)

later translated versions:	Det eldgamle kors På en avlägsen höjd
is the basis for:	Vienkāršais krusts
arrangements:	Old Rugged Cross The Old Rugged Cross (for Trombone and Brass Band) The Old Rugged Cross (Group VBS "Rocky Railway" arr)